An aureate macaronic song of praise to the Lord of Creation — nine 8-line
stanzas
Subjects: God, hymns to; hymns, to God; Creation
Versification: —
eight-line —
ababcdcd
Macaronic: Latin
2.Source: London, British Library Addit. 60577 [Winchester Anthology], ff. 63-64
First Lines:
Omnipotentem semper adorant…
Last Lines:…The societe of seyntys he to vs sende
Et benedicunt omne
per euum
Note: At end, ‘Pettantem danpnare caue nam labimur omnes / Aut sumus
aut fuimus aut possumus esse quod hic est’ (f. 64).
Facsimiles: Wilson, Edward.
“Introduction.”
The Winchester Anthology. A Facsimile of British Library Additional
Manuscript 60577. With an account of the music by
Iain
Fenlon.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1981.